rien faire, comme une bête
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Can’t sleep. Oaip Mandelstam describes insomnia and Homer. A great poem.
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MY MAYOR MUSLIM
MY SCIENCE JEWISH
IT IS THE RETURN TO THE CIRCUIT, NOT THE OBJECT, THAT IS AT STAKE IN THE DRIVE
KNICKS IN FIVE🙌
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Well done, children! Well done!
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All I want to eat today is cold, white beans and a none too sweet vanilla ice cream
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This basically how I felt about I Love Boosters. Laughed a lot, tho, and appreciated its outmoded sexual politics (so cool to see a contemporary movie saying romantic love and sex are NOT the answers). Also the visuals made me queasy.
“Any artwork that supposes it is in possession of its content is plainly naïve in its rationalism; this may define the historically foreseeable limit of Brecht's work.”
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Why don’t they try giving an elephant a dignified name? Instead of this Dumbo, Jumbo, Baba bullshit. A name like: Retinue.
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WHAT MAISIE KNEW: so far, perfect. Jamesian fairy tale. Could laugh or tear up not just on same page, but at very same moment. & no sentiment abt any of it. He’s sympathetic towards Maisie but refuses pretending he’ll shake everyone down for one more botched life bc he (we) won’t
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Once again, James’ children are precocious insofar as they know too much, too soon—are compelled to know because their situation (the tawdry adult world responsible for their care) is intimately bound up with an obscure shame. What Maisie Fucking Knew…
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I’m so excited to read Turn of the Screw and see how it might relate to all this…
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When you left your father’s house, you: did everything you wanted that was formerly prohibited; discovered all that you wanted was to be poisoned. You, now: would like to be let back into your father’s house.
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“Any artwork that supposes it is in possession of its content is plainly naïve in its rationalism; this may define the historically foreseeable limit of Brecht's work.”
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Rlly shd be, 'you can never be free, you can only be strong.' That's truer in that it better corresponds to reality. But when you sing 'you can never be strong, you can never be free,' it's truer bc the liftoff of tht last, bright, shining vowel makes you believe in your strength
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Grapefruits are one of the peskiest fruits to pick because I have no sense of what indexes a good or a bad one. But the thing is, I’ve never had a bad grapefruit.
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Now it's a phrase: 'When you grow up, you'll be dead.'
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Not an intrusive thought per se, but a word that keeps popping into my head: mincing
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It's so cool that the Latin is almost always weirder, wilder. It's not just 'fucking'; Catullus characteristically stretches the word with an offbeat suffix to form a neologism whose polysyllables smack of (ironic) erudition. I like the translator who has it 'fucktations.'
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